Steve Ambrose American investors are bracing for a volatile day of trading as a drop in crude oil prices sent China’s largest stock index plummeting overnight to 14-month lows. Traders panicked in China as the Shanghai Composite Index fell 6.4 percent. Brent Crude fell in early trading Tuesday back below $30 a barrel before recovering…
Underscoring the seriousness of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, former Sec. Defense Robert Gates says it is highly likely that America’s enemies accessed classified information from Clinton’s email. The remarks from Gates follow comments from the Inspector General that confirm Clinton’s server contained information from the nation’s most secret intelligence. In an interview with…
Blake Neff The chancellor of Oxford University in the U.K. said Thursday that students unhappy about a Cecil Rhodes statue on campus should consider moving to a different school, or even to China. A student movement at Oxford called Rhodes Must Fall has been campaigning for a statue and plaque honoring Cecil Rhodes to be…
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China’s Internet Censorship Agency has a theme song and it’s nearly as funny as it is creepy. The video, which includes English subtitles, shows a choir lauding the greatness of China and the power of the internet. They keep watch “night and day” to keep the internet safe and protect China’s image. The fact that…
This man is perhaps the world’s most unappreciated boyfriend. A man saw his elaborately planned proposal to his girlfriend in the streets of Chengdu, the capital city of south-west China’s Sichuan province, turn into a train wreck. Once his girlfriend saw the ring, which she deemed to be too small, she walked away, leaving her boyfriend…
What started as a joke has turned into a highly demanded product in China– bottles of fresh Canadian air. The country has become so polluted that people began buying up the bottled air en mass. Canada’s Business News Network reports: Finally, a breath of fresh air in Canada’s doom-and-gloom resource sector. The world may have…
Jacob Bojesson The Internet has become a tool for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to keep its citizens in place. Through the web, the government surveills their every move and puts them behind bars if their online behavior is not in line with Beijing’s sentiment. Recently, Chinese officials began developing a social credit system in which the government keeps…
Andrew Follett A new study suggests that President Barack Obama’s oil policy could be responsible for China escalating its rhetoric and squaring off with the U.S. in the South China Sea. The United States can now reduce the global supply of energy, hurting Beijing. This ability stems largely from America’s increased production of oil and natural gas derived from hydraulic fracturing. China, on its end, interprets…
Ethan Barton Major U.S. newspapers regularly publish what often appears to be editorial content provided to them by Chinese and Russian propaganda outlets without disclosing that they are controlled by foreign governments. The Washington Post has distributed in its print editions two paid advertising supplements — China Watch and Russia Beyond The Headlines — that…
Jacob Bojesson China’s new plan to allow married couples to have two children will turn the regime’s oppression from forced abortions to forced pregnancies, experts believe. The Communist party in China received praise for loosening its one-child policy as another step toward democracy and a more open society. In reality, the sudden reversal is just another way…